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The history of Coronavirus in the US is being rewritten before our eyes

First, this Tweet from the president of the Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden:

https://twitter.com/neeratanden/status/1281667806472351745

Second, This Tweet from Obama advisor (and defacto President) Valerie Jarett:

Third, this news about Cuomo:

Now let us go over some facts.

I covered this before, but New York City spread the virus to the rest of the United States.

There are more facts to consider:

3 States Account for 42 Percent of All COVID-19 Deaths in America. Why?

This raises questions about how we measure success in the age of COVID-19. While most attention is being paid to rising case numbers, death tolls would seem to be the most important metric. While US deaths per capita (401/1M) put the country among the ten highest in the world—ahead of France and Sweden, but just below the Netherlands—those numbers also don’t tell the entire story.

Few may have noticed that 42 percent of all COVID deaths in the US come from just three states—New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. These three states account for nearly 56,000 of the nearly 133,000 deaths in the US, even though they represent just 10 percent of the population. If these three states are excluded, the US suddenly finds itself somewhere in between nations such as Luxembourg (176/1M) and Macedonia (166/1M), where some of the better fatality numbers in Europe are found.

I major issue here is that COVID positive patients were forced into nursing homes where the disease spread like “Fire Through Dry Grass.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this year received a great deal of criticism when the state’s policy of prohibiting nursing homes from screening residents for COVID-19 came to light. Cuomo eventually reversed that decision under intense criticism from public health experts and trade group leaders.

This week, the New York State Department of Health issued a report that concluded 6,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to nursing homes between March 25 and May 8 as a result of the order.

These are the critical numbers to consider:

Deaths per million:
New Jersey: 1,728.7
New York: 1,660
Massachusetts: 1,189
Arizona: 265
Florida: 179
Texas: 94

One additional fact that is important in this case is that Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home executives after big campaign donations.

As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York’s 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost: a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1m into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.

Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak. The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo’s aides, created one of the nation’s most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.

One of the major vectors for infection within nursing homes were nursing home workers who contracted and spread COVID.  Absolutely no precautions were taken to prevent nursing home workers from becoming angels of death and the nursing home industry in New York is immune from civil litigation for their negligence that accounts for more than 6,200 deaths.

The Foundation for Economic Education isn’t the only group that notices this.

Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California.
California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.

In an interview, California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said it was critical to allow Northern California counties to rely on their own experts, act with a degree of autonomy and thus perhaps pave the way for the state to expand on what they had done. And three days after San Francisco and its neighboring counties were closed, Newsom, on March 19, imposed the same restrictions on the rest of California.

Breed, it turns out, had sent de Blasio a copy of her detailed shelter-in-place order. She thought New York might benefit from it.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, however, reacted to de Blasio’s idea for closing down New York City with derision. It was dangerous, he said, and served only to scare people. Language mattered, Cuomo said, and “shelter-in-place” sounded like it was a response to a nuclear apocalypse.

Moreover, Cuomo said, he alone had the power to order such a measure.

Not just was there infighting between Cuomo and de Blasio, but Cuomo went into full CYA mode before doing anything to fight the virus.

While New York’s formal pandemic response plan underscores the need for seamless communication between state and local officials, the state Health Department broke off routine sharing of information and strategy with its city counterpart in February, just as the size of the menace was becoming clearer, according to both a city official and a city employee. “Radio silence,” said the city official. To this day, the city employee said, the city can’t always get basic data from the state, such as counts of ventilators at hospitals or nursing home staff. “It’s like they have been ordered not to talk to us,” the person said.

The city official also said that after the city had been assisting the state in identifying and responding to outbreaks in city nursing homes, the state two weeks ago abruptly told the city its help wasn’t needed. More than 5,000 nursing home residents in New York have died of COVID-19.

Mayor de Blasio was even dumber and more incompetent.

By March 5, the number of COVID-19 infections in New York City were doubling every five or six days, and officials within the city’s Health Department had become increasingly frustrated at what they regarded as the mayor’s failure to comprehend the size and nature of the crisis. That day, he’d issued a press release expressing confidence that the city could still “beat this thing.”

The city official’s notes show that the Health Department into early March remained confounded by the mayor’s continued talk about prevailing against the threat.

“He doesn’t get it,” the official wrote. “Not convinced that there’s a volcano about to blow beneath us and thinks we need to beat this thing through ongoing containment efforts.”

On March 5, the notes became darker. The official said de Blasio had gagged the Health Department commissioner and her top deputy for infectious diseases for the last three days, ordering them to effectively endorse decisions he was making on his own. The official took a dim view of a mayoral press release claiming that “disease detectives” would be chasing down every case and ordering the infected into quarantine as fantasy.

“The hospital networks are looking to us for information and support, but we’re hampered by the official stances,” the official wrote. “More like China and Iran than what the city is used to getting.”

There were people in the Health Department who knew what was needed, the official said. They went unheeded.

Remember, it took until May 6th, for NYC to start disinfecting the subway system.

You really need to read both articles in their entirety to truly appreciate the level of bumble-fuckery that New York experienced at both the city and state level, from leaders too ignorant and arrogant to be effective.

So back to the introductory Tweets.

The virus hit the blue states first, which is why this nation was fucked.  It spread like wildfire in New York City, then New Yorkers took the virus with them to the rest of the country.

The “short term sacrifice” New York made was more than 32,000 people.  New York City is having so few deaths now because they killed so many just months ago.  This isn’t the effect of social distancing, this is the effect of killing off the most susceptible people to the virus already.

Lastly, it seems that Governor Cuomo’s regular national cable news fratrisexual fellation is not enough and now he must write a book, both to pad his income and to retcon history to absolve himself of all wrongdoing.

NYC and the surrounding areas of bridge and tunnel commuters were an absolute disaster in virus handling, responsible for 42% of US deaths.

Nevertheless, for a brief moment, Cuomo was considered by many on the Left to be the real POTUS.

This should be every reason for the rest of America to never trust a Democrat or a politician from the North East ever again.

Instead, they are going to use the power of traditional media and social media to rewrite history and tell us not to believe our lying eyes and that what they did was fantastic and it’s the Red States that are the screwups, numbers be damned.

We cannot let this happen.

The problem with hoodies… (Graphic video)

Violence will continue because violent criminals are just victims of Capitalism

Watch this interview with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

Every criminal in New York is just Jean Valjean.  They just need to steal a little bread to feed their children because the evil government hasn’t given them enough unemployment.

I wonder how hungry this shooter was to put a bullet through the head of a father walking his daughter across the street.

Over the 4th of July weekend, there were 64 people shot and 10 killed, including a 6-year-old girl.

This weekend in NYC, there were 15 shootings in 15 hours.

There were 101 shootings in the first week of July, a 206% increase in the same week last year.

This is what CBS in NYC has to say about it:

 

That’s a lot of people shot just to put a little bread on the table.

It’s these unmoored from reality ideas that Progressive have that kill cities.

The violence isn’t caused by people stealing bread to feed their children.  It’s caused by hardened criminals taking advantage of the zeitgeist against police to engage in the criminal mischief that they want to do.

But as long as Progressive politicians insist that the criminals are victims of the system, they will not fix it, thereby making it worse for the people on the streets.

 

Lunch because Goya

Truthfully we don’t buy a lot of Goya products since most are “processed” or simply not what we eat. But two items they sell are always in our freezer or pantry: frozen yuca and beans.

I’ll be doing some Anti Texan chili con carne and beans because I love it and offends some sensibilities of  certain bloggers.

And, Oh yes, this dickhead helped me decide the menu. He is a Democrat, pale white asshole who was an Obama operative in his state.

From the party that denounces White Privilege, a White New Englander telling Brown People to stop eating the food manufactured by a Cuban immigrant who donates millions of dollars in food to the hungry.

The Human Quality of BLM

I am guessing Black Baby Lives don’t Matter? If your political convictions override your maternal instincts, we are going to have a serious problem.

PS: Baby is not NIJ Level IIIA.

 

More evidence this culture war is not going to end peacefully

On Saturday, McAllen (Texas) Police Department officers Edelmiro Garza and Ismael Chavez were shot and killed in an ambush while responding to a report of domestic violence.

Officer Chavez is survived by a daughter, Savannah.

Losing a father is hard, especially when it is unexpected, my heart goes out to her for the pain she is going through right now.

She, like many teenage girls, turned to Twitter with her grief.  She praised her dad, whom she loved, and in her Tweet tagged #BlueLivesMatter.

That set off the fury of the woke internet, which decided to attack and torment this poor girl because her dad was a cop and she used a “racist hashtag.”  I guess with the last name of Chavez, she is probably one of those “white Hispanics.”

On the same day in Portland, there were more protests and some fat fucking bitch of a Leftist protesters who decided to threaten a cop and his family.

Yeah.

This is where the anti-cop attitude on the Left has taken us.

Attacking girls in mourning and threatening families.

I’ll tell you personally, having lost my dad, reading some of the Tweets sent to the daughter of officer Chavez, I want to wash some mouthes out with a scattergun.

When a person is so filled with righteous anger that they feel justified doing this, there is no way that this is going to end peacefully.

I’m getting really tired of this

Recently we have seen several cases of pieces of rope called nooses and hate crimes by the outrage mob.  A scrap piece of rope for a construction site, some homemade exercise equipment in a park, a garage door pull, etc.

There is a small group of people that see something innocuous and immediately, the first thing they do is identify it at a hate symbol and ascribe malicious and racist intent upon whoever put it there.

Leftist Jews are just like other Leftists and are doing the same exact thing.

From Foward:

Did the Trump campaign really slap a Nazi eagle on a t-shirt?

Hint: no he didn’t.

As wrongheaded as they were in vying to keep the U.S. out of World War II, the America First Committee took great pains to avoid fetishizing fascism.

While the group certainly attracted its share of anti-Semites and German American Bundists, its trick was to appear as American as apple pie when courting isolationists. That meant not invoking Nazi imagery — even as its figurehead Charles Lindbergh spewed Nazi talking points. Critics of today’s America Firsters claim they’re being a lot less subtle.

On July 1, the Twitter accounts of the Jewish progressive group Bend the Arc and the Republican anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project noticed a striking similarity between an America First t-shirt for sale on the Trump Make America Great Again Committee website and the Nazi eagle.

https://twitter.com/jewishaction/status/1278340461682442241

Bend the Arc can get fucking bent.

They support the viciously anti-semitic Black Lives Matter organization as well as anti-semitic and anti-zionist Palestinian groups.

Supporting Orthodox Jews being tortured in NYC?  Not so much.

If the first thing you see when you see an eagle on a circle is the Nazis, fuck you.  Fuck you and fuck your mother too.

That Nazis stole every symbol they ever used. The eagle on the globe, technically the Eagle, Globe, Anchor (EGA) has been the symbol of the United States Marine Corps since 1868, with only minor changes.

From the 1880s.

Current.

Before the Marines adopted that symbol, it was used on the ceremonial mace of the House of Representatives, the Mace of the Republic, crafted in 1841.

 

Nancy Pelosi wears that symbol as a brooch because is the Speaker of the House (image warning).

 

Pelosi can wear it but Trump puts it on a shirt and he’s invoking Nazi iconography.

Fuck these people.

This shit infuriates me.

One:

I am disgusted by the idea that every God-damned thing the Nazis ever did, ever touch, ever used, ever is tainted permanently, regardless (irregardless for Gen Z) of intent.

The Third Reich, which reigned for only 12 years from 1933 to 1945 doesn’t get to ruin every symbol used by humanity since antiquity.

The Runic Alphabet dates back to 550 AD and was used by half of Europe at one point, but because of the fucking Schutzstaffel, today we associate them with Nazism.

The Nazis don’t get to own history.

Two:

This shit always goes one way.  It’s always Leftists seeing hate symbols where there are none and then attacking the Right for them.

Trump spoke out against anti-Semitic violence more than Obama ever did.  Jews were getting the shit punched out of them in New York City, and Synagogues were being vandalized and attacks, during the Obama Administration, under Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, and they said fuck all nothing about it.   Not one peep.

Trump condemns the violence against New York City Jews, but he’s the Nazi.

Three:

The Left wears T-shirts with the face of Che on them, a racist, mass-murdering, piece of shit, and they never get called out for it.  They wear the Hammer and Sickle of the Soviet Union and it’s cool.  Communism killed ten times as many people as Hitler in the 20th Century and was every bit as racist and genocidal, but they get a pass.

This is dishonest, disingenuous, bullshit and it must be called out that way.

This is a Rorschach test for tyrannical, Leftist, assholes.

I refuse to let a tiny handful of people on Twitter be the arbiters of who is a Nazi because if they squint really hard and remain totally ignorant of history, they can Nazi symbology in whatever they want.

They can all get fucked.